摘要:
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, systems, and methods related to multiple address registers for a solid state device (SSD). An example apparatus includes a controller including a plurality of base address registers (BARs) each including same addresses for data storage in a same memory resource and an SSD that includes the same memory resource.
摘要:
Proactive management of a plurality of storage arrays in a multi-array system, including: comparing one or more conditions of a particular storage array to conditions of other storage arrays in the multi-array system; and generating an action recommendation based on the comparison, the action recommendation specifying one or more actions for improving the conditions of the particular storage array relative to the conditions of the other storage arrays.
摘要:
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for generating a list of files accessed during an operating system (OS) boot process to profile the OS boot process, and optimizing the list of files to generate an optimized file list for use in future OS boot processes, where the optimizing is according to a first optimization technique if the files were accessed from a solid state medium and according to a second optimization technique if the files were accessed from a rotating medium. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
摘要:
The present invention discloses a data compression method, including: periodically collecting, by a metadata controller MDC in a storage system, first information indicating a current working status of each computing node in the storage system, and second information indicating a current working status of each storage node in the storage system; determining, by the MDC based on the first information, a computing node that is one of the computing nodes and whose current working status is not a busy state as a current active computing node; determining, by the MDC based on the second information, a storage node that is one of the storage nodes and whose current working status is not a busy state as a current active storage node; and compressing, by a distributed software header DSH in the current active computing node or a memory manager MM in the current active storage node, a piece of data when the storage system needs to compress the data. Meanwhile, the present invention further discloses a storage system.
摘要:
A storage system 1000 providing a storage area to an external device 1500 comprises a plurality of storage apparatuses 1100, 1200 and 1300 of different performance capabilities, and a storage controller 2600. The storage controller 2600 holds storage cost coefficients 3202 of the respective storage apparatuses 1100, 1200 and 1300, user cost allocation information 3302 for each user using the storage system 1000 from the external device 1500, and user cost distribution information 3402 that defines, for each user, proportions of an available space amount distributed to the storage apparatuses 1100, 1200 and 1300. The storage controller 2600 calculates an ideal utilization 3502 for each user, from the storage cost coefficients 3202 and the user cost distribution information 3402, and allocates, for each user, the ideal utilization 3502 to each of the storage apparatuses 1100, 1200 and 1300, in the order of the performance capabilities from highest to lowest.
摘要:
Provided are a method, system, computer readable storage medium, and switch for configuring a switch to assign partitions in storage devices to compute nodes. A management controller configures the switch to dynamically allocate partitions of at least one of the storage devices to the compute nodes based on a workload at the compute node.
摘要:
A server at a cluster of servers in a data center is described. The server comprises a memory which is part of a distributed memory of the cluster. The server has at least one processor executing transactions and lock-free reads on software objects stored in regions of the distributed memory, the software objects and details of the transactions being replicated in the distributed memory. The server has a network interface card arranged to receive a message indicating a new configuration of the cluster comprising addition, removal or potential failure of at least one of the other servers. The processor is configured to use a recovery process which enables the lock-free reads and committed ones of the transactions to retain the properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability across configuration changes.
摘要:
A storage apparatus coupled to a host device comprises a virtual volume which is a virtual logical volume configured of multiple virtual areas and a pool configured of multiple actual area groups of different performances. A controller manages pool status information which is the information showing which actual area is allocated to which virtual area and access load related to the virtual areas. A management system of the storage apparatus, with reference to the pool status information at multiple points of time from past to present and an access load threshold which is equal to or larger than 1, estimates the used capacity of each actual area group at points of time in the future, calculates the installed/removed amount of each actual area group which is the difference between the estimated used capacity and the current storage capacity, and performs the processing based on the calculated result.